A practical treatise on human teeth : showing the causes of their destruction, and the means of their preservation / by William Robertson.

  • Robertson, William (Dentist)
Date:
1842
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Credit: A practical treatise on human teeth : showing the causes of their destruction, and the means of their preservation / by William Robertson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Leeds Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Leeds Library.

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    CONTENTS. Page. The period of life when the teeth require the greatest attention. The shedding of the teeth. The treatment necessary to ensure the regular arrangement of the permanent teeth .. .. 190 Treatment necessary for the preservation of the permanent teeth 196 Necessity for persons making themselves familiar with the form and arrangement of their teeth.. .. .. .. .. .. ] 99 Difficulty of impressing upon the minds of people the necessity of attention to the teeth in the absence of pain.. .. .. 201 Important that the general practitioner should have an intimate know- ledge of the pathology of the teeth .. .. .. .. 202 The teeth often overlooked, and the pain arising from them attributed to other causes .. .. .. .. .. .. 203 Common case of supposed tic douloureux ; the teeth found to be the exciting cause of the pain.. .. .. .. .. .. 204 Case of obscure caries of a tooth, exceedingly liable to be mistaken for tic-douloureux .. .. .. .. .. 206 Case of abscess at the angle of the lower jaw, with general derange- ment of health. Carious teeth the exciting cause .. .. 208 Case of a fistulous opening at the junction of the malar with the superior maxillary bone. A perfect malar tooth which had been concealed for upwards of forty years discovered to be the exciting cause .. .. . • .. •• 210 Treatment of a case in which there was an insufficiency of room for the development of the dens sapientiaa .. .. .. ..212 EXPLANATION OF THE PLATES 215